Eve Blau | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Historian, educatior |
| Spouse | Peter Rose |
| Family | Helen Blau (sister) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | The Architecture of Deane and Woodward, 1845-1861 (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | George L. Hersey |
| Other advisors | Vincent Scully |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Wesleyan University Canadian Centre for Architecture Harvard University |
Eve Blau is a historian and scholar who teaches at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University as a Professor of the History and Theory of Urban Form and Design, as well as Director of Research. Blau has contributed to scholarship on the history of architecture and urban design.[1] In 2015 she received the Victor Adler State Prize (Victor Adler-Staatspreis für Gesichte sozialer Bewegungen 2015) from the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research, and Economy for her work on Red Vienna and her book The Architecture of Red Vienna: 1919-1934. The Victor Adler State Prize is given for scholarship that is distinguished by its interdisciplinary breadth, use of innovative methods, contemporary historical questions, and that is widely published. In 2018, she was named Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians and in 2022, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.